A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c13.s7.17
A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c13.s7.17
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Other Indo-Javanese works, however, are much later, the Chandi Sewa temple, for example, being assigned to a. d. 1098. The Hindu kingdom of Majapāhit in Eastern Java was overthrown by the Muhammadans in a.d. 1478, when the persecuted Hindus fled to Bali, where their descendants still practise Brahmanical rites, including *satī* (suttee) in its most appalling form, while another section of the population is Buddhist.²